HomeMy WebLinkAbout132ORDINANCE NO. 132
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF IMMIDALE REGULATING THE USE OF SIGNS AND
BE LLWARDS .
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF IRWINDALE DOES ORDAIN:
SECTION"I. Chapter 4 of Article VIII of the Irwindale
Municipal Code, beginning with Section 8400, is hereby deleted and
the following substituted therefor:
Chapter 4 - SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
Part I - SIGNS
Section 8400. Signboard or Sign Device. No person shall
erect, move, alter, suspend, attach, or maintain any sign,
billboard, signboard or sign device, of any kind or character upon
any building in the City in violation of any provision of this
Chapter.
Section 8401: Permit Required. No person shall erect,
move, alter, suspend, attach or maintain any sign, or any portion
thereof upon any building without first obtaining from the Building
Inspector a building permit in writing so to do, and paying therefor
thefees prescribed in the Uniform Building Code therefor; provided,
however, that a permit in writing from said Building Inspector shall
not be required for a sign not projecting from the face or wall or
above the of of a building, in case any face of such sign does
not excoe nor shall a permit in
writing be required for minor repair* and alterations, or for the
changing of' -'advertising on signs, or -any similar Mork, in case the
site of the sign is not increased and the strength and stability is
not affected thereby.
Section 8402=.- Electrical Wiring Permit. No person shall
do any electriaall icing or install any electrical lighting to be
used in catneetion with any sign -upon any building without first
obtaining from the Building Inspector a permit in writingao to do,
and paying therefor the fees prescribed by the Chapter regulating
the installation, alteration and repair of inside and outside
electrical construction in the City.
Section 8403. Sign Extension Distance. No sign or any
portion thereof shall extend or project from the face -or wall of any
building, or extend or project over any public street or -other public
property, a greater distance than hereinafter allowed fortheheight
which such sign or -portion thereof is elevated above the street,
property or ground adjoining the building directly under the sign as
follows:
1. Below a height of eight feet, not to exceed two inches;
2. Above a height of eight feet, and below a height of
twelve feet, not to exceed twelve inches;
3. Above a height of twelve feet, not to exceed eight feet.
No portion of any sign attached to or supported upon
any building, except a roof sign as provided in Section 8405 shall
extend or project above any fire or parapet wall or above the roof
of the building in case there is no fire or parapet wall, provided,
however, that signs permitted by Subsection 3 of this section may
project not to exceed four feet above a fire or parapet wall or
above the roof in case there is no fire or parapet wall, provided
that the portion of such sign which projects above such wall or
roof does not have horizontal dimension of more than two feet,
measured parallel with the face or wall of the building.
Section 8404. Extending in Front of Windows. No sign or
any portion thereof shall be attached to any fire escape or stand-
pipe.
No sign, or any portion thereof, shall extend in front of
any window, or any portion thereof, above the first story of any
building, nor shall it extend in front of any window, or any portion
thereof, in the first story of any building unless the sign or
portion thereof in front of such window is at least twelve feet in
height above the street, property or ground, adjoining the building
directly under the sign.
Section 8405. Total Height. No sign erected upon or
above the roof of any building shall exceed a total height in any
part thereof of more than twenty-five feet, measured vertically
from the level of the top of the fire or parapet wall nearest the
sign, or.from the highest point of the roof directly under the sign
in case there is no fire or parapet wall.
No portion of any sign erected upon or above the roof of
any buildings, except the necessary structural framework. and braces,
shall be within six feet of any portion of the roof unless such
roof shall be entirely constructed of al least one hour fire
resistant materials. No portion of any such sign, including the
framework and braces shall be within three feet of the inner face
of any fire or parapet wall, or within three feet of the outer face
of the exterior wall in case there is no fire or parapet.wall,
unless there is a clear vertical height of at least six feet from
the level of the top of the fire or parapet wall, or above the roof
directly under such portion of the sign in case there is na fire or
parapet wall.
Section 8406. Sian Support. Every sign erected upon or
above the roof of any building shall be supported by a framework of
structural steel; provided, however, that a wooden board or sheet
metal sign, supported on wooden or steel posts may be erected upon
the roof of any building located outside of the fire zones
established or that may hereafter be established, in the event that
such sign has a total height of not to exceed four feet above the
lowest portion of the roof directly under the same, and is at least
three feet from every fire or parapet wall and does not project
beyond -the roof of the building.
The level of the top of a fire or parapet wall shall mean
the lowest level of the major portion of the length of same on that
side of the building.
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Section 8407. Incombustible Material. Every sign erected
upon or above thereof of any building, except the wooden.board or
shast metal sign provided for in the immediately preceding -section,
shall be entirely of incombustible materials•, every electrical sign
and every sign illuminated by lights attached thereto shall be
entirely of incombustible materials and bear the approval seal of
Fire Underwriters Laboratories; and every; other sign shall be of
wood at,;least three quarters of an inch ia_thicknass, of a,single
thickness of material..
Section 8448. Glass. All glass forming a part of any
sign shall be securely held in place and any single piece or pane
of glass having an area of more..than three square feet shall be of
vire glass.
Section 8409. Wind Pressure. Every sign and every portion
thereof, including all supports, braces and anchorage therefor,
shall be designed, constructed, erected and -maintained to withstand
a wind pressure of at least thirty pounds per.square feet every
direction; provided, however, that any sign, no portion opt which,
exceeds a height of sixty feet above the lowest level of the ground
or street adjoining the exterior walls of the building or structure
upon which the sign.is erected or supported, may be designed,
constructed, erected and maintained to withstand a wind pressure of
at least twenty pounds per square feet from every direction on all
portions thereof.
Section 8410. Rivet or Belt. All structured members and
their connections shall be securely riveted or bolted"together, and
no rivet or bolt exposed to the weather shall be less than one-half
inch in diameter. ;No part portion or equipment of-any,sign shall
be used which might:become dangerous because.of�vibratiou,or:because
of corrosion or disintegration whear.exposed to the weather. or for
any other reason whatsoever. .
Section 8411. Advertising Matter. Advertising or displcy
matter maybe paintedy placed or.installed upon,the hanging border
of.any,canvae,awning, or upon the border of any metal canopy or
marquise constructed, erected..and maintained in accordance with this
Code.
Section .8412. Immoral Advertising. No person shall
advertise or display any immoral or unlawful act, suggestion, business
of :purpose.
r* Section 8413. Revocation. The Building Inspector of the
City shall have and_is hereby granted the power and authority to
revoke any.permit granted hereunder.and is also granted .the power
and authority;to order :any sign maintained in:violation of any
provision of this Chapter to be altered, repaired, reconstructed,
demolishedier removed, as may be necessary to conform hereto, and
such work or .act shall be completed.within.ten days of the date of
such order.
Part 2 - BILLBOARDS
Section 8414. Sise and Height. No person shall construct
or maintain within the City any outdoor advertising structure with a
surface sign space of more than fifty.feet in length.or more than
ten feet six inches in height; provided, however, that letters, .
figures, characters or representations in cutout or irregular form
may be maintained in conjunction with, attached to or superimposed
upon any outdoor advertising structure but shall not extend below
the minimum height above the ground as required in Section.8415 of
this Code and shall not extend more than five and one-half feet
above the top of the upper ornamental.m®lding.
Section.8415. Base Line.. No person shall construct or
maintain within the City, any billboard, signboard or ather-
advertising board, unless the base line thereof shall be at least
twelve inches, and no portion thereof shall be more than seven
feet from the surface of the ground, provided, however, that on
lots or premises used as automobile parking stations,_ automobile
service stations, or automobile sales lots, the base line may be
in excess of seven feet but not more than ten feet, six inches
above the surface of the ground. _
This Section shall not apply where the full length of
the board is built against or attached to the sideof a.
building.
Section 8416. Safely Built. No person shall construct
within this City any billboard or other advertising structure
unless the same is safely and securely built and constructed, and
erected upon posts or standards sunk at least five feet below the
natural surface of the ground, and unless the same be erected with
braces of timbers or metal rods in the rear thereof, extending
from the top of said billboard or structure to a point is the
ground at least equal to one-half of the height of structure,
measuring along the ground from the post or standard upon which
such structure is erected, except when fastened to the mall of a
building.
Section 8417. Public Property. No person shall construct
any billboards, signboards or advertising board upon any public
property, street or other public place in the City.
Section 8418. Rubbish. No person constructing or
maintaining,.owning or controlling any billboard, signboard or
other advertising structure within the City shall fail, refuse or
neglect to remove at all times, weeds, rubbish or any infldsimsbla:
waste or materials from the base of such structure.
Section 8419. Placing of Advertising Matter._No.person
shall throw, deposit, distribute, paste, post, stick, tack, hang,
affix or place any cloth, canvas, paper, cardboard, bill card,
poster, sign, or device for advertising purposes upon any street,
lot, fence, post, tree, shrub, building or structure in the City
except upon the billboards or advertising boards as in this Chapter
provided.
Section 8420. Owner's Consent. No person shall construct
or maintain advertising structures upon any property or building in
the City without the written consent of the owner, lessee, agent or
trustee thereof and a written permit from the Building Inspector of
the City.
Section 8421. Restricted Lets. No person::shall construct
or maintain upon any lot or parcel of land, in this City,,
restricted by deed:or Ordinance of .this City for residential purposes,
any advertising structure, billboard, sky sign, electric sign, or any
other sign or device, except real-estate signs advertising.for sale
or lease the property upon which they stand or the.name of any
person having the listing of such property, or the sign of any person
conducting a business, trade or profession or calling on Said
premises, which signs do.not exceed twelve square feet, provided such
signs are erected -at a distance greater than fifteen feetfromany
other sign, and are constructed in such manner that they shall not
be nearer to any street or other public place than the front line of
the nearest building on the same side of the street in the same block.
Section 8422. Indecent Advertising. No person shall
exhibit, post or display upon any billboard or other advertising
structure in this City, any -statement, words, or signs of any
obscene, :indecent or immoral nature, .or any character,illustration
or designation of any human figure or part:of human figure in such
detail as to offend public morality or decency, of of any lewd act
or any other matter or -thing of any obscene, indecent or immoral
nature of offensive in the moral sense;wr any murder, suicide,,-
robbery,
uicide,robbery, hold-up, shooting, stabbing, clubbing, or beating of'any
human being wherein any such act is shown in gruesome detail or in
any reVoltina nature or in any manner:,ebjectionable to the moral
sense.
Section 8423. Front Line of Construction. No person shall
construct or maintain any billbsard..or other advertising signboard
upon any lot;orpremises within any busimessAistrict in such a.
manner that any portion thereof is nearer:.to.the:lina�sf.any public
street than•the.frent line:of theinearest house or stere building
in the same block, which faces on any such public street or other
public placer
Section 8424. Permit Required. No person shall erect
any billboard or other advertising board as in this Chapter set
forth, without first:obtaining:a building permit therefor.from the
Building:.Inspector of -the City, which said parmit shall be -granted
upon the.written_appiication containing the name .and:address,of:the
applicant, the proposed location+of.the structure and the dimensions
and materials of which said structure is to be constructed,Nand a
showing that the same does not violate any of the provisions of this
Chapter.
Section 8425. Surface. No papers, cloth or other
substance or%advertising matter shall be -allowed or permitted to
hang lease from any of said structures, but the same shall be
securely fastened or blued to the surface thereof, and said structure
shall have a smooth surface and no nails, tacks, wire or other
substance shall be permitted to protrude therefrom, except electrical
reflectors er devises -extending ever.the top or in front:98 said
structure to be used for illuminating purposes.
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Section 8426. Scattering Paper etc. on Streets. No
person shall scatter, daub, or leave any paint, paste, glue or
other substance used for printing or fixing advertising matter,
upon any phblic)street or sidewalk, or -scatter or throw any bills,
waste matter, papers or materials whatsoever taken or removed from
said structures, or used in connection therewith, on any public
street, or on any public property.
Section 8427. License Required. No person shall engage
in or carry on the business of erecting, constructing or maintaining
any advertising structures in the City without first paying the
license fee and obtaining a license therefor from the License
Collector.
Section 8428. .Definitions for Sections 9429, 8430 and
8431...
1. "Freeway" is hereby defined to mean a highway in
respect to which the owners of abutting lands have no right.of,
easement or access to or from their abutting lands, or in respect
to which such owners have only limited or restricted easement or
access and which is declared to be such in compliance with the
Streets and Highways Code of the State of California.
2. "Advertising Structure" in connection with .freeways
is hereby defined to be any structure or device of any kind or
character erected or maintained for outdoor advertising purposes,
upon which any.poster, bill, printing, painting or other adver-
tisement of.any kind whatsoever may be placed, posted, painted,
fastened or affixed or used in connection with, including so-called
electric or cut-out signs; provided, however, that the same shall
not prohibit the display of official notices issued or a private
person in giving legal notice, nor shall the same include any sign
not exceeding twenty (20) square feet in area used exclusively to
advertise the sale or lease of the property on which the sign is
placed, or to designate the name or accupant of the promises.
3. "Accessory sign" is defined to be any advertising
sign or sign device erected or maintained and which is strictly
indicental and subordinate to the lawful use of the premises upon
which it is located, and indicates the business transacted.or
services rendered or goods sold or:producod on the premises, or an
eccupany thereof.
Section 8429. Prohibits. No advertising structure,
assessery sign shall be erected or constructed within five hundred
(500) feet of the freeway, REGARDLESS OF THE DISTRICT or sone in
which it is located.
Section 8430. Exceptions. The provisions of Section 8429
shall not apply to any sign structure constructed, painted:.or
maintained on a building or premises on which the advertising is
limited to any or all of the following:
(a) The name of the building whereon the sign is located.
(b) The name of the person, firm or corporation occupying
the building and the type of business conducted by such person, firm
or corporation.
(c) The name of the product manufactured on the premises.
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(d) Advertising which is strictly incidental and sub
ordinate to the lawful use of the premises on which it is located,
including signs, advertising services rendered or goods sold on the
Premix" .
4e) - The exceptions shall not be construed as permitting
signs indicating the trade name, merchandise or service of any
person or corporation.who pays a aonsideratioa for the,privilege of
placing, msjntainjng: or fusing: any portioA of said sign or -painted
advertising, to the. ~r, or ioccupawt_ of ;the premises_ on. which. it is
located.
Section $431. Existing Sines and Structures.. All
advertising structures or accessory signs which do not conform to
the provisions of Sections 8428 to 8430, inclusive, but which were
constructed in compliance with previous regulations,:Shall be
regarded as non -conforming, and may be continued except that no
existing billboard, at the time of the effective,date of -this
ordinance, shall be moved, retated, transposed, or altered in any
way in its location --to enable it to be read or viewed from the
freeway at said time, and provided.furtiher that such non -conforming
advertising structures or accessory signs, as described fik this
ordinance, shall be removed within one year from the effective date
of this ordinance, or within one year from the date a freemay or
portion thereof if opened to public travel, whichever date is later.
SECTION 2. The Mayor shall sign this Ordinance and the
City Clerk shall attest to same, and the same shall be posted
immediately thereafter in three(3) public places within the City
Limits of the City of Irwindale, as prescr " by Resolution.
ADopted.this lot day of July, 9
Mayor of the City of Irwi
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STATESTATE OF CALIFO )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES) as.
CITY OF IRWINDALE )
I, LEE B. YOUNG, City Clark of the City of Irwindale, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 132 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting
of the City Council on the 20th day of May, 1963, That thereafter,
said Ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of
the City Council an the lst day of July, 1963, by the following vote;
to -wit.
AYES: COUNCILMEN:
NOES: COUNCILMEN:
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN:
Brocade, Miranda, Martinez, Sulzer
and Mayor Diaz.
None.
None.
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STATE'OF CALIFORNIA ) -_
COUNTY OF' LOS- ANGELES) ss.
CITY OF IRWINDALE )
LEE B YOUNG, being first-duly•sworn, deposes and says;
That she is the duly appointed and City Clark of the
City of Irwindale, California, and -is at was at all _times herein
mentioned a citisan of the United States ovdr'the age of eighteen
(18) years and competent to be a witness herein.
On July 2, 1963, she securely and conspicuously posted
at each of the public places in said City, to -wit;
(1) 16034 Calle de Norte;
(2) Post Office on Irwindale Avenue; and
(3) =A ar Jnedr the door of the -Council Chambers,
-5050 North -Irwindale :Avenue.
a copy of Ordinance No. 132 of the City of Irwindale, being in
all respects the same as that attached hereto and made a part
hereof.
Dated:" July 2, 1963.
Lee B. Young,y Clark o
the City Coun� of the C y
of Irwindale, California